it's sitting with a new around the globe with spectacular celebrations from australia to america we show you the highlights of our. party also looks at the legacy of the twenty twelve could have been if things had differently and explore some of the challenges the world might face in the. deal looks set to pull america from the edge of the fiscal cliff and the tax hikes for millions of americans for the time being at least.

hello there thanks for joining us if you just have a new year's day here in moscow our top story the more we've got an hour left of new year's day twenty thirteen is made around the globe with a ray of fireworks performances and cheering crowds as take a look at the world party then should we do zealand was among the first to usher in twenty thirteen crowd packed the harbor in all clinton joy if i were exploding of the city's sky tower a great sight it. was not a stray joining the festivities a bit later with almost two million people gathering to see the now standard jaw dropping fireworks from harbor bridge as the clock struck midnight there. a new year continues from for march through asia with the most spectacular shows in hong kong biggest ever the say were a countdown to twenty thirteen culminated in a light extravaganza on the land and in the sky and europe now picking up the holiday torch is berlin hosting one of the world's largest open parties the

brandenburg gate to the u.k. pulling out all the stops at the end of a big year with the most rising fireworks display in the heart of the capital. and across the atlantic over a million spectators to send them new york's iconic times square to celebrate with the traditional drop of the crystal ball. here in russia the new year officially kicked off for the traditional chivers the country's main clock one of the. revelers from across russia code red square to watch the crowning moment of fireworks above the iconic basil's cathedral. there were mixed emotions regarding the year that passed with sad to see it many more indeed hopeful the twenty thirteen we'll see better times. take a look at the world that could have been. twenty twelve was certainly full of disappointing headlines hope fueled by the arab spring turned into the turmoil of the arab on the war in syria claimed countless lives and the

fiscal crisis saw the european union torn apart at its very seams and the problems facing our world today certainly don't offer themselves up to an easy fix what if things had turned out differently what if opportunities were actually seized upon instead of missed well here's our look at the twenty twelve headlines that could have been. diplomacy succeeds in syria ending bloody conflict. instead this was the image of syria the world saw increasingly violent clashes between government forces and the opposition had claimed more than forty thousand lives. efforts to negotiate a diplomatic solution fell flat because divisions ripped apart both the country and the international community hundreds of thousands of refugees have fled to neighboring states where many have found conditions to be dismal meanwhile syria's war is threatening to spill over its borders as tensions escalate within and in the

region. atomic triumph sanctions slashed as iran's nuclear to accept. gunning to end gun fire the us rules to restrict firearms mideast peace israelis two states back to palestine. yet this was their reality israel's assault on palestinian militants in gaza israel's anti-missile shield repelled in most attacks on its territory but a strike claimed the lives of more than one hundred sixty palestinians many of them civilians despite harsh condemnation from many in the international community the war and israel's subsequent decision to construct three thousand new settlements effectively slammed the door shut to any prospects of peace go through people power moment he step aside and let a democracy in. get lost get most notorious kuantan in my prison permanently shot. euro zone cuts the cuts and lifts austerity. but the news of austerity only

tightened as deep public sector cuts brought thousands of angry demonstrators to the streets of greece spain italy and portugal. the worst economic crisis of a generation has battered the european union's very foundations exacerbating tensions between member states with some regions now desperately wanting out more grew up with a europe that was divided from east to west. to europe it is divided from the south i've never had any part of the history of this union has there been more discord of rancor that we cover to go corporate cash for the campaign coffers as part of the us political. no we here for u.k. british quit european union. we found a duty in the song to point to the un free speech and. instead a song remains a political refugee at ecuador's london embassy where he's been granted asylum he

continues to fight extradition to sweden over alleged sex crimes charges that he says are politically motivated and tied to his work in leaking international government secrets. the power of people speaking up and resisting together terrifies corrupt democratic power so much so that only people here in the west and the enemy of governments an enemy to be watched and enemy to be controlled and to be impoverished true democracy is not the white house true democracy is not. true democracy is the resistance of people with the truth against lies from the right here in london. everyday ordinary people teach us that democracy is free speech and a sense. from heretics to hero american whistleblower bradley manning finally free

. droning on the nations agreed to end iraq of remote control. egypt's arab spring sees democracy defeat hardline islam as. the reality on the ground was anything but egyptian president mohamed morsi has fouled like power grab unleashed fury and frenzied street battles and a fast track to constitutional overhaul referendum left a bitter opposition eager for change but then two thousand and twelve saw the arab spring transformed into an egyptian nightmare had the revolution to get rid of a tyrant dictator. in the order to that we made elections and the revolution and elections to choose someone to the present us turned out that this guy is also a tyrant himself but he's had lines may have been the stuff of the magination but that sea of twenty thirteen can bring any of them to life with a coffin of r.t. moscow. where celebrations on capitol hill were delayed as lawmakers use the early

hours of twenty thirteen to strike a crucial deal to avert the so-called fiscal cliff the senate eventually agreed all the proposed tax hike which would have affected virtually every american worker the deal still has to go before the house of representatives later tuesday at his economic expert mercs kaiser told us that it's still too early to pop the champagne . some people call him the crazy kaiser mr max joining us good to see you max. two thousand and two thousand and thirteen a happy new year to you there it's a rule we kept on a nice a here you know you never know what made you always go for the juggler with all the guests you have on the cars report is there anyone at this point you already are going off with two thousand and thirteen and he picked him in the future absolutely we're going after jamie diamond. ready for. we're going to find him we're going to a lot of the ranks. this is the year we see pranksters in jail i sort of doherty putting pranksters in jail now the rest of the world's going to bring pranksters in

jail the fiscal cliff is just more theater bankers and politicians trying to distract people from the underlying root catastrophe that is a bunch of hers and frankly who are manipulating the system day in and day out destroying the economy this fiscal cliff is just more drama more theater and it doesn't really focus on the true underlying problems and we're going to see more of this going forward in two thousand and thirteen anything good bye flecked attention from the mobs what they're pitchforks and torches there are coming after these people they want to just delay that day of reckoning first many months if they can but that day's reckoning in twenty thirteen it's comic. because it was one cold when you wish among europeans that their leaders might ease up on the cuts. all of the government's listening while the truth is the government's counterforce to listen to. one of our economic contributors says countries

a still head of the wrong tells us why surely. it's been a tough twelve months for the world's top and his son spent spending half of it under house arrest the remainder an ecuadorian embassy in london a correspondent sort of following his ups and downs through the. a lot of you say wiki leaks in jail is like that more in a year ot than most media organizations have done in decades we've really had a front seat view of everything that's been going on we hired him at the beginning of the year fighting that extradition to sweden we saw his the pill rejected we then saw that dramatic twist in the tell when he went into the i could do it embassy seeking asylum we've been learning julian assange certainly the british media we see a lot of the cold on him quite viciously especially during the course of this year with movies. events happening surrounding chilean assault a lot of people who would put that down plain and simply to jealousy. she was

a success for barack obama second u.s. president washington correspondent says he not only succeeded in snatching victory from march rival mitt romney but also votes from a third party candidates to. there were cheers of relief here when he won i would say because the alternative was thought to be so much worse many voted out of fear that romney could win for them he was another george w. bush so whether americans have fallen out of love with obama the two thousand and eight euphoria was gone that's for sure back then there were these crowds you know in the streets all across the country shedding tears of joy so bad in their view where eight years of bush presidency obama was we get to see the year then he went and saved the banks saved the auto industry something he took a special pride in during the election campaign but across the country people remained out of work and are still out of work so this time president obama ran under the banner it could have been so much worse as you imagine it was not

a banner for the national euphoria it was more like you have no choice but to choose me kind of something that shocked me. i was covering the election here it was it was the second debate between obama and romney i'm sure you remember if you remember that i just presidential nominee from the green party joel stein was arrested right outside the venue where the debate was taking place he was protesting for exclusion from that his age and nobody like no news channel period mentioned her arrest none and i was switching channels for hours to see if anything was said about that and it was nothing i can imagine what the reaction would be here in the states if a presidential candidate is the other big country was arrested in the media there wouldn't even mention it but apparently it happens in the u.s. no big deal presidential candidates get arrested all the time right well there was some irony and yes anyway during the election campaign the mainstream media had been focused on nothing else and no one else but these two candidates and we are

t.v. as you remember of course saw the is saw an opportunity there to show what others don't and we hosted the debate. correspondent in washington d.c. now the end of the is so barack obama's victory over the by the primary school shooting in connecticut to lead the president's pledge to the epidemic of gun violence tom hartman takes a look at whether the land of the free is ready to loosen its grip on the right to carry a firearm my guess is what we're going to see is cosmetic change we're going to see probably the or the assault weapons ban come back they'll be a fair number of loopholes in it but you know the u.s. is not going to end up going the way that's what's a longer israel have done or many most european countries have done australia when john howard was president one thousand nine hundred eight when there was a mass slaughter and then they said ok that's it we're going to buy back all the guns and it's not going to happen here there's just too much money being made with guns insane supreme court or at least five right wing crazies out of the nine on

the supreme court decided that even though the second amendment says in order to maintain a well regulated militia necessary for the security of a free state the right to you know you people have the right to own guns that's half of it the other half of it is that the supreme court also said that corporations interest groups lobbying groups billionaires can throw unlimited amounts of money in politicians. the soul searching among the russian opposition of why the protests moved in the country last. in the next few minutes piece wife few of people took part in. twelve plus exam. also adds to the be a change of leadership in a rally. for the west we find out just the. wealthy british style.

market. what's really happening to the global economy with mike stronger for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines kaiser reports.

hello again russian politics so a crowd in return for vladimir putin a fresh anti-government protests in twenty twelve although in smaller numbers than the year before political analysts watch developments in the heart of the rallies he told me i'm a colleague and this is an hour earlier how he sees the protest mood in russia. i would say it's kind of bleak but not hopeless ok we didn't come up with any new ideas new organization new faces and if pussy riot is that the leader of the opposition was pretty dreadful situation for the russian people and political development in general here and there was political change in this country in a positive change but who does make up the opposition as we have. it's a very interesting question because i have gone to most of the major demonstrations

and there were people there of goodwill in my opinion but then there were fascists there ok who were communists i mean these are people they're ok and it's your right to demonstrate i i'm all for that like the idea but they didn't accomplish anything but i could see they have no organization no unifying ideas except for i don't like but a mere putin is not a very it's not a political agenda there were a few protests which i was out as well where it did seem like that was the method if you wanted to gain traction on this opposition movement do you see people coming out and take the train lost a lot of its novelty effects right ok because political change takes years and years and years that have to be local this is what happens in political changes with countries that were what they were carrying at one time it takes a long time to get people involved in the process and that is happening. very very strongly there's some people that want to really fast and they don't want to do it through elections they want power because they want power because they believe they

deserve it and what about the fact that we're not going to see any presidential actions of course that all led up to being elected a third term this protest and now they're kind of when i down now oh i would say to people i mean if you want to continue to protest fine but you know join a political party there are forty four of them now you have a chop it's ok get involved see one of the things i saw with a lot of the protesters is that they want someone else to do all the hard work ok they want to go out and wave a flag and say you give out a slogan they don't want to do the hard nitty gritty work of political change and that's what they need to do. well piers of course. russian and global politics is cross talk show throughout the past twelve months on our web site r.t. dot coms plenty of editions for you to watch if you like on demand whenever you want to see them. iran chooses a new president in june mahmoud ahmadinejad's served his maximum two terms and there's little clue as to who is going to replace him to tackle the almost

inexorable tension with the west over iran's nuclear program we spoke to journalist action returns use often shared his insights and around with this he doesn't expect the new leader to bend forward will. i think whoever we people of iran elects policy foreign policy terms things are going to be much the same people are already talking about the mayor of tehran at the moment i was in a job himself president ahmadinejad was the mayor of tehran the new mayor of tehran ghalibaf and people are talking about him. perhaps winning in june because it's too early and is notoriously difficult to predict iranian elections as to whether they will be as hardline and again the terms of the terminology of western corporate media on this or bizarre image of the islamic extremists in all sorts of different morning because the point is iran is there to stay in terms of forging a very different type of developing nation and economy because it has all that oil

it has all those resources and it's not going to suddenly start changing things the way the i.m.f. or the way that washington wants it to be. iran's nuclear plans then and the power switch bound to dominate headlines coming out of the middle east this year we could export opinion on who the key players in countries are likely to be shaping out of the rest of regions fortunes are going to pan out from around to israel to the palestinians so you don't home but also put together the as well a photo finish for you for twenty twelve we've lined up a gallery of eye catching snapshots of stories that captured worldwide attention in the past year.

europeans have had a year of fairly uncompromising cuts to contend with which already saw plenty of street protests of course no service in their own debt unemployment is one thing but investment advisor patrick young says none of it's enough to repair the country which remains the biggest headache what's happened so far has been swindling cuts on the masses and we really haven't managed to make the remotest impact upon the whole nation itself greece is still fundamentally in a huge problematic situation it does not remotely have a functioning government system that fiscally is going to manage to organize itself in any which way possible to manage to get through the continuing swinge cuts that need to take place out of course then we're looking at the whole issue of the demonstrators are the governments listening well the truth is the governments can't afford to listen because what we're seeing within the european union even if the

euro has survived miraculously for twelve months government has run out of money the european union's western socialist model of spending huge amounts of money borrowing even greater amounts of money and hoping to pay everything manyara or indeed thirty years from mine yana simply does not work. other news making headlines now this late new year's day in moscow there's been violence in the other palestinian territory this new year's day in the northern west bank dozens of palestinians reportedly injured when israeli security forces fired on them after the troops were pelting stones and bottles the trouble flared after soldiers discussing the vegetable sellers apparently tried to seize a known operative of a local jihadist group points of blockades have been set up in the area follow our middle east correspondent dates on twitter to get abreast of all that just look for paula slayer. in northwest pakistan five female teachers and two health workers been shot dead in an ambush it's believed the attackers to warn other women against

seeking education in conservative parts of the country which are often raided by islamic militants in october a taliban government shot a fifteen year old girl for promoting schooling among others. well many of us may be nursing a sore head or two right now but nonetheless max and stacy here sharp as ever will be here with a cause report after this break for you. in the march under guard these men and women are walking on the longest and probably the loneliest road in the world they reenacting march into exile made by thousands and czarist russia. if i was here three hundred years ago i may have disappeared

my local lord i may have deserted from the army or a variety of other crimes the result was the same like my fellow prisoners around me i've got a long and very cold walk ahead into exile in siberia it took them years to get there summers winters entire years a lot of people died on the way. this group in the western siberian region of alms discovered they're living on the only surviving stretch of the original nine thousand kilometers of the siberian exiles track that's had no modern changes made to it yevgeny discovered that he's descended from some of these exiles and decided to build a museum telling a story he and his re-enact has now received as it has from all over the world to show them what it was like when the story is going to stop it's scary to put the shackles on of course but it's interesting if we don't remember our history we will have no future if we want to say it's a monument to one of the wrist russia's cruelest chapters. the city served as the

capital of anti communist white russian leader admiral culture shock in the civil war from one thousand nine hundred to nine hundred nineteen whilst in residence he lived here though the study of the man like the maintenance of this building has remained a taboo right up until the present day or we still receive hate mail saying that he hanged a lot of people and was famous for severe punishment it's all true but it was at a time of civil war both sides were monstrously cruel it is sadly the theme of cruelty which links so much of history to the rest of russia's particularly of exile where they were an apple or a criminal. act

. divine power in action activate the shock was. i am jesus we need these we are under the control of those governing us he said were at the service of a space mafia i found on that day the magnetic field of the sun will be fixed to create the support that just. after the second coming it will be a beautiful place it will receive its glory it will be a renewed world and it will be a beautiful place. full of the best. will stop this type emulation. is good business for us it's kind of like being a doctor you know if there's a disaster businesses. better unfortunately.

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hi i'm max kaiser welcome to the kaiser report and welcome to twenty third team you know more than one hundred thirty years ago the outlaw jesse james when robbing a train you to tell the passengers and i quote we're not ordinary thing we're bold robbers the victims loved it and almost every single one of the victims you killed was unarmed yes the population adored him today the likes of jamie diamond and lloyd blankfein similarly enjoy celebrity status as bold robbers of an arm yes a paladin and pension funds across the world cheeky jamie lovable lloyd are heroes to many a young hoping to be derivative slinging financial murderers in the high frequency trading in dark pools is twenty thirteen the year however of the banking death

penalty we will see the democracies of the outlaws of the law and order restored of all our planes of finance that is marked production for twenty third states. max welcome to twenty thirteen we haven't got to sleep yet have we. got it. well the first headline we're going to cover is a good omen for two thousand and thirteen that's a bad omen i think for lovable lloyd and adorable jamie u.b.s. libel or manipulation deserves the death penalty this is william cohen from bloomberg dot com and he says there is no point in mincing words u.b.s. the swiss global bank has been discreetly saying the banking profession for years and needs to be shut down this is in light of the one point five billion dollar fine they paid to several regulators across the world for manipulating libeler primarily through.